Unfortunate timing
Aug. 19th, 2009 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscWe have a not-particularly-elaborate sprinkler system for the garden that we set up in June. This year, of course, we've hardly had to use it at all.
But the recent (and continuing) hot and rainless weather has us thinking that a bunch of things could use some watering. We started thinking about this over the weekend, figuring we would water once or twice this week.
But then the Gloucester water treatment plant developed some kind of problem, and while they were able to get water temporarily from neighboring communities (and, we are assured, the tap water was never unsafe to drink), and have since put in some repairs, they have put a ban on outside water use (garden hoses, sprinklers, car-washing, etc.) until their supplies are properly replenished. the reports in the local paper have been increasingly vague about how long this is likely to take.
There's theoretically supposed to be some rain over the next few days, but I've heard that song before. If it doesn't rain, we're probably going to have to cheat, at least to keep our tomatoes (which have only just started producing) alive.
But the recent (and continuing) hot and rainless weather has us thinking that a bunch of things could use some watering. We started thinking about this over the weekend, figuring we would water once or twice this week.
But then the Gloucester water treatment plant developed some kind of problem, and while they were able to get water temporarily from neighboring communities (and, we are assured, the tap water was never unsafe to drink), and have since put in some repairs, they have put a ban on outside water use (garden hoses, sprinklers, car-washing, etc.) until their supplies are properly replenished. the reports in the local paper have been increasingly vague about how long this is likely to take.
There's theoretically supposed to be some rain over the next few days, but I've heard that song before. If it doesn't rain, we're probably going to have to cheat, at least to keep our tomatoes (which have only just started producing) alive.
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Date: 2009-08-19 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-20 03:44 am (UTC)Our usual method for watering blueberries, on the other hand, is to flood their roots at low pressure over a long period (something we don't need to do frequently, but I'm damned if I'm going to let our first good crop in about three years wither on the bushes). Since they're behind the house, nobody would catch us if we did this, but it does seem to violate the spirit of the ban.